Giancarlo Fisichella struggled for balance but teammate Adrian Sutil had a strong start to his Chinese Grand Prix campaign with the German clocking the 14th quickest time in the morning and the 11th in the afternoon practice sessions here today.

Fisichella struggled to find a good balance on the VJM02 and was 17th (1:38.460) in the morning session and 20th (1:37.750) in the afternoon.